ARTICLES ABOUT POSTERS BY DATE - PAGE 4

(Reuters) - In line with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise, posters from every Bond movie in the series are hitting the auction block in December, along with stills, lobby cards, scripts and other 007 ephemera. Auctioneer Profiles in History said the Bond poster collection is expected to take in well over $200,000, led by a rare "From Russia With Love" special advance Leicester Square world-premiere poster from 1963. It is one of a handful believed still in existence and is expected to fetch $10,000 to $15,000, the auction house said.

VIENNA (Reuters) - A prominent Vienna museum has decided to cover the "intimate parts" of three naked male soccer players on big posters put up in the Austrian capital after they caused an outcry. "We got many, many complaints," Leopold Museum spokesman Klaus Pokorny said about the public display of the placards used to advertise its "Naked Men" exhibition due to open on Friday. "We didn't realise that many, many people would be really upset or really angry in a way that we are also afraid about security, about protection of the visitors of the museum.

By Chris Francescani Sept 24 (Reuters) - An inflammatory ad equating Islamic jihad with savagery was posted Monday in 10 New York City subway stations, even as much of the Muslim world was still seething over a California-made movie ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad. The ad, sponsored by the pro-Israel American Freedom Defense Initiative, appeared after the Metropolitan Transit Authority lost a bid to refuse to post it on the grounds that it violated the agency's policy against demeaning language.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Interior Ministry has postponed at the last minute a poster campaign advertising a hotline aimed at countering radical Islam because of fears it could have incited violence by extremists. Western governments are keen to avoid exacerbating Muslim anger after a film made in California ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad surfaced on the Internet and ignited violent protests around the world, some of them deadly. The posters had been due to go up in German cities with large immigrant populations from Friday.

Graphic artist Jenny Beorkrem sat down behind her iMac this week and with a few clicks located the folder titled "KNOCKOFFS. " It contained 82 images, all copycats of her ubiquitous neighborhood maps. They're the minimalist ones that only show the names of Chicago's neighborhoods wedged inside their geographic boundaries. Some of the files in the knockoff folder are screen grabs of imitators' e-commerce sites. Others are posters Beorkrem and her friends have spotted in locales as far away as Australia and the United Kingdom.

By Basil Katz NEW YORK, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The artist who created the "Hope" portrait of Barack Obama that became emblematic of the president's triumphant 2008 campaign was sentenced to community service on Friday after admitting he had lied about which image he used. Los Angeles-based street artist Shepard Fairey, 42, became a celebrity for creating the red, white and blue image of Obama silhouetted above the word "Hope" on a poster. Fairey pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of criminal contempt in February for doctoring and destroying evidence once he realized the photograph of Obama he used for the poster belonged to the Associated Press.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's latest Olympic hero is hoping that a Bollywood movie on her life isn't just about the sweat, tears and grime. Mary Kom, five-time women's boxing world champion, won a bronze medal at the London Games, and her exploits will now be captured on the big screen. "I hope they show some romance in the film," the 29-year-old told Reuters in a phone interview. "That's also important, right?" The mother of two is married to Onler Kom, who is also her manager, and hopes director Omung Kumar depicts that part of her life in the film as well.